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Creating Money, Creating Meaning. Getting Into Financial Flow With Orna Ross
OLD POST ALERT! This is an older post and although you might find some useful tips, any technical or publishing information is likely to be out of date. Please click on Start Here on the menu bar above to find links to my most useful articles, videos and podcast. Thanks and happy writing! – Joanna PennOur attitudes to money shape so much of our lives, and today I explore how we can integrate our creativity with our money in discussion with Orna Ross. If you're struggling with your financial journey, then you'll find this interview fascinating.
In the intro, I talk about my lessons learned after 3 years as a full time author-entrepreneur and what's changing for me right now.
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Orna Ross is a poet, award-winning and bestselling literary fiction author and founder of the Alliance of Independent Authors, also voted one of the Top 100 most influential people in publishing last year. Orna also blogs and writes non-fiction books on creativity, and today we're talking about her latest book, Creating Money, Creating Meaning: Getting into financial flow.
There's a video on YouTube here.
We discuss:
* How Orna's Go Creative series explores creativism – exploring creativity with things we don't usually associate with that. This particular book started life over 10 years ago when Orna started to explore the idea of applying the creative process to making money – and it turned out to be fun!
* Why creative people have an issue with talking about money. How our backgrounds can shape our attitudes. Overworking, underearning, undercharging – do you recognize these issues? It's common amongst creatives and you can change.
* How you can start to change your attitude to money. Look at your behaviour and the way you talk about it. On welcoming money in, in a similar way to inviting the Muse in for our writing (as Stephen Pressfield talks about in ‘The War of Art.') Changing your thinking from conventional thinking, deconstructing thought patterns.
* How to deal with money discussions in your relationships. How differing money attitudes can co-exist in a relationship.
* The 7 stages of the creative process for the money journey, using me (Joanna) as an example! The importance of setting your Intention for your financial life, as well as your creative life. Incubation – let it settle and while you're thinking, move into Investigation – learning about how to get there and what you have to do to make it. If you're serious,